Reference : Writing Skills

When you've written a book you want to see it in print. You want people to read and enjoy it. This book explains everything you need to know to be able to convert your manuscript into a printed book and to get that book selling in the shops, or to sell it online as an eBook. more...

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Editor Anne McKinney Although a resume is important, the cover letter is the first impression. This book is a compilation of great cover letters that helped real people get in the door for job interviews against stiff competition. Included are letters that show how to approach employers when you're moving to a new area, how to write a cover letter when you're changing fields or industries, and how to arouse the employer's interest in dialing your number first from a stack of resumes. "A comprehensive collection of cover letters for different career fields." - Catholic Library World ISBN 1-885288-13-1 Trade Paperback more...

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A comprehensive guide to writing newsletters and articles, this text provides tips on how to get the brief right; how to open articles; how to use case studies; where to find experts; and how to design and lay out newsletters. more...

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"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted. "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'". "But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published!" The writer tossed his head about, wildly. "It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing!". Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid—at all costs—if you ever want your novel published. In How Not to Write a Novel , authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they'll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore. more...

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By turns gleefully precise and happily contrarian,. this is a highly opinionated guide to better. communication. In Literally, the Best Language. Book Ever, author Paul Yeager attacks with a. linguistic scalpel the illogical expressions and. misappropriated meanings that are so. commonplace and annoying in everyday. conversation. Identifying hundreds of. common language miscues, Yeager provides. an astute look at the world of words and how. we abuse them every day. For the grammar snobs looking for any port in. a storm of subpar syntax, or the self-confessed. rubes seeking a helping hand, this witty guide can. transform even the least literate into the epitome. of eloquence. more...

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